Editors: Michael Byram (University of Durham) and Alison Phipps (University of Glasgow)

The overall aim of this series is to publish books which ultimately inform learning and teaching, but whose primary focus is on the analysis of intercultural relationships, whether in textual form or in people's experience. There are also books which deal directly with pedagogy, with the relationships between language learning and cultural learning, between processes inside the classroom and beyond. They all have in common a concern with the relationship between language and culture, and the development of intercultural communicative competence.

A key purpose therefore is to encourage the study of languages and cultures in ways which can ultimately enrich practice. In this context, the series editors seek contributions to the series which reflect on the relationship between languages and intercultural communication and its implications for learning and teaching. In order to 'learn to live together' we need studies which analyse language and culture teaching itself: classroom processes, the inter-relationship between learning in the classroom and learning in a 'natural' environment, the effects on identity and self-understanding of language and culture learning. To complement established work on language acquisition, we need studies of 'culture acquisition' in pedagogical and in untutored, 'natural' surroundings. We also need studies from disciplines outside of education: from socio-linguistics, psychology, anthropology, ethnographies of communication, from literary, theatre and media studies where the prime focus is on how different people relate and communicate both within and out with the formal educational context.

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The editors of the series are Alison Phipps and Michael Byram.

Alison Phipps is Director of the Graduate School for Arts and Humanities atthe University of Glasgow and Senior Lecturer in German, where she teachesmodern languages and anthropology. Her books include (with Mike Gonzalez) Modern Languages: Learning and Teaching in an Intercultural Field (2004);(ed. with Manuela Guilherme) Critical Pedagogy: Political Approaches toLanguages and Intercultural Communication; (ed.) Contemporary GermanCultural Studies (2002), Acting Identities (2000), She is co-editor of the journal Tourism and Cultural Change. She is Chair of the International Association for Languages and Intercultural Communication (IALIC), an association dedicated to the promotion of research and teaching in languages and intercultural studies in Higher Education and a member of the editorial board of Language & Intercultural Communication

Michael Byram is Professor of Education at the University of Durham, England. After reading Modern and Medieval Languages at King's College Cambridge, he wrote a PhD on Danish literature and then taught French and German at secondary school level and in adult education in an English comprehensive community school. He has published several books including Teaching and Assessing Intercultural Communicative Competence; Language Teachers, Politics and Cultures (with Karen Risager); Intercultural Experience and Education (edited with G. Alred and M. Fleming). He is also the editor of the Routledge Encyclopedia of Language Teaching and Learning. He is a Special Adviser to the Council of Europe Language Policy Division, and is currently interested in language education policy and the politics of language teaching.

The editors will be pleased to discuss proposals with potential authors for the series. Please submit to the editors c/o Multilingual Matters following the notes on the preparation of book proposals here.